i'll be looking into other projects these people have been involved with, too.

you might not find what you want. most of what Simon's done since is not especially pop-song-oriented, mainly soft introspective songs or long guitar jams that kinda rule live but you never feel like listening to on record, ever. the Her Name In Lights record was kinda like the Alannah end of Hummingbirds though I s'pose, amiable girly vocals wandering through spring grass. (that's with Mary Wyer from Even As We Speak writing and singing, and Alison Galfunk on drums). If you like the Hummingbirds and want to try some of Simon's straight production, the first Modern Giant EP is probably a good first stop, you'll see why by the fourth word. though he actually plays on that too. the (first proper) Noise Addict EP was actually pretty poppy, but that was like two seconds after the H'birds split so he was still in that mode. most of his production work is on standard Synneyindie bands. though I think he might have done Custard early on.

go backwards for Robyn (though you have to really, she's barely done anything publicly since they split [though that HAC fake-comp is good fun]) - the Love Positions album is very much proto-attitudinal for the Hummingbirds, and you get the original versions of both Into Your Arms and Don't Go Now.

oh wow, i didn't realise the her name in lights and even as we speak connection. love even as we speak, haven't gotten around to her name in lights yet, but now i probably will soon.

yeah, i thought i read that simon hasn't really done anything so interesting since hummingbirds (or, at least that would be so interesting to me). i really love when the girls get lead vocals on the songs, so i'm definitely just more interested in hearing what else they've done. i'm just a sucker for girly indie pop. what i love about the hummingbirds though, is that they kind of have that going on maybe like, a third of the time, but the songs just sort of rock really hard or something, and the production on 'lovebuzz' is just so over-the-top. the guitars are so loud and so great. this isn't really indie rock, or indie pop, or twee pop though, is it? it's power pop or pop underground or something? i have it tagged in itunes as pop underground, along with like, teenage fanclub and one other thing. i really wanna find out about more bands like this, if there are any. . . ?

yeah, though. love this band. sad how forgotten they seem. i mean, i've been into things kind of a lot like this for a couple years now, and i'm only just finding out about them.

sly persuader was OTM up there: I remember getting Lovebuzz in a supermarket in Brisbane in 1991 and Va Va Voom in Geelong JB Hifi in 1993, ie. both a couple of years after release, and both for peanuts. I still retain these childhood memories but remember little else about these vacations.

I really liked them, or at least the IDEA of them - faintly off-key boy-girl vocals and a sound that one of them claimed grew out of attempt to sound like JAMC's "Never Understand". I remember "Blush" being something of a crossover hit and it felt, genuinely, like the proverbial breath of fresh air on the TV and radio, in a way that presaged Ratcat's and then Nirvana's surprise success a little bit later. Their A-sides were great. Both of those albums, at something like 14 tracks each, probably could have lost a couple of the weaker tracks and arguably some of Mitch Easter's bells and whistles though.

I must listen again to that late Gone EP too - some pretty "wall of sound" moments, as someone already said...

i listened to 'gone' and 'tail' recently after not having heard them for years, sounded great. to this day i still don't know if that (awesome) 4th song on tail is called 'sick on' or 'sick on self pity'

for foreign readers: Simon and Alannah are currently both in The Aerial Maps, and the Hummingbirds played two reunion shows last year (one festival with five original-era members not including Robyn, and one headline about nine months later with a ring-in bassist [and bonus ring-in gtrst on one song])